"If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debtâ€”above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong."

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Source : David Graeber (2014). “Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years”, p.16, Melville House

David Graeber

#Debt Quotes #Way Quotes #Violence Quotes

“Pause and remember - Making the wrong assumptions causes pain and suffering for everyone.”
“Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.”
“When God rang the bell that ended the fight, the world cried out for one more round.”
“We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.”

Source : Sarah Vowell (2013). “Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World”, p.209, Simon and Schuster
“I think that a lot of people are in love with stress. It's the dirty little secret of Western civilization. People often mistake stress for fuel.... to me, stress is just another bad drug that I don't want to do.”
“Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.”
“From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.”

Source : Yasunari Kawabata (2015). “The Master of Go”, p.57, Random House
“A lot of times, kids go to college and take a major because they do what they think they're supposed to do. I told them I believe 90 percent of America gets up in the morning and drives to a job they hate. That could have happened to me in the hotel industry.”

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